Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan workers comment on victory celebrations
By our correspondents, June 9, 2009
The Sri Lankan government has been conducting an intense communal victory campaign since the army’s defeat of the LTTE. The WSWS spoke to workers about their reaction.
Sri Lanka: Inside the Manik Farm detention centre
By our correspondent, June 8, 2009
This report was provided by an elderly person who recently visited several relatives being held in one of the internment camps set up by Sri Lankan authorities.
Sri Lankan journalist brutally beaten
By Vilani Peiris, June 6, 2009
Poddala Jayantha, the general secretary of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association, was abducted and brutally beaten by an unidentified gang in Colombo on Monday.
Sri Lankan president’s speech: another warning to working people
By K. Ratnayake, June 5, 2009
President Mahinda Rajapakse used a huge victory parade in Colombo on Wednesday to warn that his government would tolerate no opposition to its program of “nation-building”.
Sri Lanka and India seek to patch up relations
By Wije Dias, June 4, 2009
Relations between Sri Lanka and India were strained in the last months of the Sri Lankan military’s offensive against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The two governments are ...
British newspapers expose cold-blooded killing of LTTE leaders in Sri Lanka
By Robert Stevens, June 3, 2009
The British press last week revealed that senior LTTE leaders in Sri Lanka were in negotiations with British and American diplomats to surrender, immediately prior to their killing by the Sri Lankan a...
Sri Lanka: Tamil detainees kept in appalling conditions
By Sarath Kumara, June 2, 2009
Despite international pressure, the Sri Lankan government is still blocking free media and aid agency access to the military-run internment camps where more than 275,000 Tamil civilians have been deta...
UN-based estimates put Sri Lankan civilian death toll at 20,000
By Sarath Kumara, June 1, 2009
The British Times newspaper and France’s Le Monde have published articles pointing to a far higher civilian death toll in the final months of the civil war in Sri Lanka than previously reported.
Sri Lankan government prepares broad attack on democratic rights
By S. Jayanth, May 30, 2009
The Sri Lankan government has refused to lift its state of emergency and the Prevention of Terrorism Act, which allows security forces to continue their arbitrary detention without trial of “LTTE su...
UN body covers up Sri Lankan government’s war crimes
By Wije Dias, May 29, 2009
The UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution that blocks any independent inquiry into the Sri Lankan military’s war crimes and hails the government for its victory in the communal war against the...
Thousands of soldiers perished in Sri Lankan war
By Sarath Kumara, May 28, 2009
Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse has revealed the staggering level of casualties suffered by government soldiers in the last phase of the war against the separatist Liberation Tiger...
Doctor condemns conditions in Sri Lankan detention camps
By our correspondent, May 27, 2009
Hundreds of thousands of civilians who fled the north-eastern war zone in Sri Lanka have been herded into detention camps. A doctor who recently visited one camp spoke to the WSWS about the conditions...
